Sedan Chair

Definition: Sedan Chair

Sedan Chair

Noun

1. A closed litter for one passenger.

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Synonym: Sedan Chair

Vehicle

Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle.

Crosswords: Sedan Chair

No. 1 Pope Leo XIII in Sedan Chair (1898)

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Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth covered sedan chair on shoulders with woman inside, with surrounding text. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Prince of Wales carried in elaborate sedan chair on first visit to Hongkong. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canton - Joseph G. Pangborn beside sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chefoo - Mrs. Reese being carried in sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chefoo - English children in sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Four men carrying sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Governor and escort passing through provincial village in covered sedan chair. Credit: Library of Congress.

Native gentleman's sedan chair enroute from Seoul to Chemulpo, A. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Albanian

karrige që mbahet mbi supe (sedan). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محفة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стол-носилка (chair, sedan), портшез (sedan). (various references)

Chinese 

轎 , 轝 , 輿 (carriage, world). (various references)

French

chaise � porteurs. (various references)

German

sänfte (chair, howdah, litter, palanquin, sedan). (various references)

Greek 

φορείο (litter, sedan, stretcher). (various references)

Hungarian

hordszék (litter, sedan). (various references)

Indonesian

bertandu (ride in a sedan chair). (various references)

Italian

portantina. (various references)

Manx

caair hroailt. (various references)

Pig Latin

edansay airchay

Portuguese

cadeirinha (chair, lady chair). (various references)

Russian 

седан (saloon, sedan), носилки (doolie, hand-barrow, litter, palankeen, palanquin, stretcher). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zatvorena nosiljka. (various references)

Spanish

silla de manos (sedan). (various references)

Swedish

bärstol (litter, palanquin, sedan). (various references)

Thai

เกี้ยว. (various references)

Turkish

sedye (litter, sedan, stretcher, wheeled bed), tahtırevan (chair, litter, palanquin, sedan). (various references)

Misspellings

"Sedan Chair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sudan chair. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: anarchies, arachnids, archaised, haciendas, radiances.

-2 letters: acarines, airheads, arachnid, araneids, archaise, archines, canaries, cesarian, charades, echidnas, hacienda, handcars, hardcase, inarched, inarches, rachides, radiance.

-3 letters: acarids, acarine, acedias, acrasin, airhead, airshed, anarchs, araneid, arcades, archine, arcsine, arnicas, arsenic, ascarid, cahiers, cairned, canards, candies, cardiae, cardias, carinae, carinas, carnies, cashier, chadars, chained, chaines, chaired, charade.

-5 letters: aahed.

+1 letter: cantharides.

+2 letters: archdiocesan, handicappers.

+3 letters: handicrafters, rhabdomancies.

+4 letters: archdeaconries, archimandrites, chateaubriands, handicraftsmen, monosaccharide.

+5 letters: monosaccharides.